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“Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel.”

Quote by Ayn Rand

Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Work

Ayn Rand Novel Collection

This collection includes Ayn Rand's most notable works, showcasing her distinctive style and exploration of Objectivism, a philosophical system emphasizing rational self-interest and individualism. more

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American novelist and philosopher, known for her novels and philosophical ideas. Her works emphasize individualism, free markets, and rationalism, and have had a profound impact on politics and philosophy in the late 20th century. more

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“Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... Don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. That idea is a kind of joke on both authors and readers. All the readers believe that authors do it. All the authors know that it can't be done.”

People Knows Believe Kind Ideas Real Done Character Stories Novel Reader Jokes Real Life Copies

Book:Letters of Ayn Rand

Source: Letters of Ayn Rand

“You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.”

People Way Should Writing

Book:Letters of Ayn Rand

Source: Letters of Ayn Rand

“There is only one institution that can arrogate to itself the power legally to trade by means of rubber checks: the government. And it is the only institution that can mortgage your future without your knowledge or consent: government securities (and paper money) are promissory notes on future tax receipts, i.e., on your future production.”

Mean Government Security Taxes Paper Institutions Trade Notes Productions Checks Our Future Consent Your Future Mortgage Rubber Receipts Paper Money

Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shapes, but always in cost.”

Government Cost Shapes Projects Mausoleum

Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts.”

Men Mind Individual Brain Groups Average Individuality Compromise Collectives Agreement Attributes Fountainhead Collective Consciousness

Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism, based on man's inalienable right to live for himself. Neither to hurt nor to serve his brothers, but to be independent of them in his function and in his motive. Neither to sacrifice them for himself nor to sacrifice himself for them.”

Men World States Hurt Accepting Moral Sacrifice Brother Function Independent Individuality Code Motive Individualism No Hope Moral Code

Book:Letters of Ayn Rand

Source: Letters of Ayn Rand

“A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a man is born - an organic whole, dictated only by its own laws and its own necessity - an end in itself, not a means to an end.”

Men Mean Ends Whole Stories Law Literature Born Teach Written Sells Means To An End

Book:Letters of Ayn Rand

Source: Letters of Ayn Rand

“Money is the root of all good.”

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong - and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate.”

Ifs Should Use Force Sides Moral Issues Morality Absolutes Discussion Appropriate Consideration Disputes Initiate Ifs And Physical Force

Author:Ayn Rand

“A rational process is a moral process.”

Reason Process Moral Morality Rational

Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)